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Mr. Emilios M. Comodromos serves on the Department of Civil Engineering since 1999, initially as Assistant Professor and since 2011 as a Full Professor. He is a civil engineer of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. with postgraduate studies (D.E.A.) at Ecole Centrale Paris and doctoral studies at AUTH. His research interests include the analysis and design of infrastructure projects, soil-structure interaction, the use of numerical methods to simulate and solve complex engineering problems as well as the optimization of constitutional laws for soil materials and soil-structure interfaces. He has been designer, consultant engineer and checker for project design including foundation, landslides, tunnels, bridges, retaining structures, soil or reinforced embankments and rock-fill dams. He is the author of more than 90 publications in international journals and conferences and the author of two books on Computational Geotechnical Engineering and the Design of Foundations.

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Undergraduate Courses

Foundations and Retaining Structures
Tunnels and Underground Structures 
Soil-Structures Interaction

Graduate Courses

Soil-Structures Interaction (graduate)

Office Hours
Wednesday, 11:00 - 13:00
Thursday, 11:00 - 13:00

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	Assistant Professor
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Christos Dritselis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Thessaly, specializing in 'Experimental Hydraulics' (2024). He holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (2001), a Master's Degree in 'Energy Systems, Industrial Processes, and Anti-Pollution Technology' (2002), and a Ph.D. in Engineering (2007) from the University of Thessaly. He has over 10 years of research experience following the completion of his Ph.D. in various academic institutions. He has worked on 17 basic and/or applied research projects in the broader field of Fluid Mechanics. His research interests include fluid mechanics in energy, process, and environmental systems, mathematical modeling of flow and transport phenomena, experimental and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), particle flows, multiphase flows with free surfaces/interfaces, and hydrodynamic turbulence. He has published over 50 papers in scientific journals and international conference proceedings and he has given invited talks at universities and conferences. Finally, he has served as a reviewer for more than 80 papers in 28 scientific journals and conferences, as well as for research proposals funded by the European Commission.

Undergraduate Courses
Fluid Mechanics
Hydraulics
Experimental Hydraulics

Office Hours
Tuesday      10:00 – 12:00
Thursday     10:00 – 12:00

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	Assοciate Professor
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 Dr Nikolaos Eliou is professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Thessaly (city of Volos, Greece). He holds a diploma in civil engineering (1984) and a PhD (1990) from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dr Eliou is a special advisor to Greece and Europe in road safety audits and design of road works and road safety issues in many administrative structures (municipalities, ministries etc). Dr Eliou is a qualified independent Road Safety Auditor (Safety Auditor) and monitors major national road projects. He has extensive experience in research projects as principal researcher in cooperation with Greek and European universities and institutes. He has significant qualification in urban and regional infrastructure planning and he has an extensive professional experience in highway design and study of transport engineering and development projects for municipalities and prefectures, in fields of traffic analysis and infrastructure modeling and management. He teaches highway engineering and infrastructure safety management. He is a member of several professional organizations and technical committees.

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Education
Civil Engineer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1984)
Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1991)

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	Assοciate Professor
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Theophanes Grammenos is an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Thessaly. His research interests include general relativity and gravitation with an emphasis on the study of black holes and mathematical cosmology, analytical mechanics, continuum mechanics, tensor analysis and differential equations on curved higher-dimensional manifolds, differential geometry with an emphasis on Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry, and history of mathematical sciences. He has published over 40 articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings, he is the co-author of two textbooks on Linear Algebra and Fuzzy Mathematics, respectively, and has translated over 10 Mathematics textbooks.

Undergraduate Courses

Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry
Ordinary Differential Equations
Partial Differential Equations

Fluid-Structure Interaction
Thermal Behavior of Structural Materials

Office Hours
Monday, 13:00 – 15:00
Tuesday, 13:00 – 14:00
Thursday, 13:00 – 14:00

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	Lecturer
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Graduate Courses
Engineering & Marine Geology - Geotechnical Engineering


Office Hours
Wednesday 14:00 – 16:00
Thursday, 13:00 – 15:00

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	Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Katsardi is a Civil Engineering graduate of DUTH (2001) and holds a master’s degree in Hydraulic Engineering form DUTH (2002). She completed her doctoral studies at Imperial College, London in 2007 in the field of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. She has been serving the University of Thessaly since 2012 and specializes in ocean and coastal engineering and the interaction of structures with the marine environment. She has collaborated with major companies of the oil and gas industry (Shell, BP, Statoil, Woodside, Total) and has participated or led research projects related to marine construction, offshore oil platforms and offshore wind energy. She has more than 30 publications in journals and international/national conferences related to the above subjects and has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Thessaly since 2012.

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Dr. Pantelis Kopelias is an Assistant Professor at School of Civil Engineering at University of Thessaly (city of Volos, Greece). He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering (1997) and a PhD (2002) in Traffic Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He teaches Traffic Engineering, Road Operations and Traffic management, Pavement Design and Management and ITS and Traffic Management Applications. He has participated in several EU and Greek Research and Development projects and Traffic studies in the area of Traffic Management, Road Safety and ITS. He is author or co-author in 20 scientific publications in journals and over 60 conferences papers with referees. He is member of the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers and also he is /was member of several organizations and scientific groups (TRB, IRF, IIAV). He has a significant  - 20 years - professional experience as Civil and Traffic Engineer in areas of Traffic Operations, Traffic and Incident Management and Transportation studies.

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Lampros Koutas is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Civil Engineering of The University of Thessaly, and a member of the Concrete Technology and Reinforced Concrete Structures Lab at the same Department. 

His qualifications include a Diploma in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Seismic Design of Structures and a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Patras (Greece). In the past, he has worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Dept. of Civil and Structural Engineering of The University of Sheffield and at the Dept. of Civil Engineering of The University of Nottingham.

He has extensively worked in projects related to the use of composite materials (such as FRP, TRM) in retrofitting existing reinforced concrete and masonry structures, and has built an expertise in the use of textile-fibre composites in structural and earthquake engineering applications. He has published more than 50 papers in International Journals and Conferences.

He is a member of the fib Task Group 5.1 "FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Structures", and member of the RILEM MCC Committee on "Mechanical Characterization and Structural Design of Textile Reinforced Concrete". He has also reviewed more than 270 papers in 32 International Journals, while he is member of the International Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction.

Undergraduate Courses:

Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures I
Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures II
Assessment and Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Structures

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Monday       11:00 – 13:00
Tuesday      11:00 – 13:00

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	Professor
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Chrysi Laspidou is a Professor at the Civil Engineering Department, University of Thessaly in Greece. Her research interests include resource Nexus and water informatics, mathematical modeling and simulation of physical-chemical and biological processes that take place in natural aquatic systems and other ecosystems, as well as urban water issues, resource depletion and sustainability, virtual water and water-carbon-ecological footprint. She has conducted research in many different aspects of water, from performing mathematical modeling of aquatic system processes to computational biology relevant to ecosystem function, to the socio-economic aspects of water use and water resource management. She is involved in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) projects that are mainly on innovative multisensors and/or biosensors, smart urban water management, smart cities and ICT for improving ecosystem function and quality. She has recently been elected the Vice-President of Research and Technology at Water Europe, while she is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Knowledge Action Network at Future Earth. She has published over 60 articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings and is actively involved either as a Principal Investigator, or as a Coordinator in research projects funded by the European Commission, or national sources.

Undergraduate Courses
Chemistry for Engineers
Water Treatment & Principles of Ecological Engineering
Aquatic Chemistry and Water Treatment

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Office Hours
Wednesday: 14:00-16:00
Friday: 14:00-16:00

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Education
Mechanical Engineering (B.Sc.) The University of Texas at Austin, USA (1992)
Environmental Engineering (M.Sc.) The University of Texas at Austin, USA (1993)
Civil and Environmental Engineering (Ph.D.) Northwestern University, USA (2003)

 
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	Professor
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Office Hours
Wednesday, 11:00 – 13:00
Thursday, 11:00 – 13:00

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	Professor
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Office Hours
Tuesday 17:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00

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	Professor
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• Transportation Planning
• Road Safety
• Design and Evaluation of Transportation Systems

• Freight Transport and Logistics

Office Hours
Tuesday 1 -3 pm, Wednesday 11 am - 1 pm and upon appointment.

	Assοciate Professor
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Undergraduate Courses
Construction Materials
Experimental Strength of Materials
Reinforced Concrete Design III

	Professor
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Dimitrios Sophianopoulos is a Professor of Structural Stability, Dynamics and Steel Structures at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. He is also the Director of the Laboratory of Strength of Materials and Micromechanics in the same Department, and the Head of the Structural Engineering Division. Prof. Sophianopoulos earned his Ph.D. in 1997 from the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and his Bachelor in 1982 from the same Institution. He has published 45 papers in scholar journals and 67 refereed National and International Conference papers. With more than 400 citations in Scopus (h-index 8) and more than 650 in Google Scholar (h-index 10) Prof. Sophianopoulos is a member of the Editorial Board of 5 International Journals, and serves as a Reviewer in more than 15 high impact international Journals of his field. He is also a member of ASCE, AIAA, Structural Stability Research Council and ISCES. He has supervised two (2) completed PhDs (and 4 more in progress), and numerous Master and Bachelor Theses. His Teaching experience includes undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses both in his country and abroad, as a visiting Professor. For specific details concerning employment, teaching and academic achievements please see below.

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During the Fall semester 2019-2020, Professor Sofianopoulos will be on sabbatical leave.

	Assistant Professor
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Dr. Athanasios (Akis) Theofilatos, is an Αssistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Thessaly. From 2019 to 2022 he worked as an Asistant Professor at Loughborough University, UK. Ηe is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK. He holds a Civil Engineering Diploma from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA, 2009), an M.Sc. in Transport from Imperial College/UCL (2010) and a Ph.D. in Transport Safety from NTUA (2015). Akis was a Marie-Curie Fellow (Eurotech) from 2018-2019 at Technical University of Munich.

His research focuses on road safety, accident analysis, sustainable transport, statistical methods, machine learning/deep learning and transportation/traffic engineering. Akis has more than 11 years of experience in several aspects of transportation safety and engineering, has participated in more than 10 research projects and has published 34 journal papers, 2 book chapters and more than 40 conference papers (Scopus h-index=14, Google Scholar h-index=19). Akis also serves as a reviewer for more than 30 scientific journals and is a member of the Standing Committee on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Transportation (Transportation Research Board, TRB, 2018 –).

Highway Engineering ΙΙ
Sustainable Urban Mobility
Public Transport

Office Hours (by appointment):
Monday 11:00 - 13:00 (online or in-person)
Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00 (online or in-person)

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	Assistant Professor
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Dr. Tsinidis is an Assistant Professor in Computational Geotechnical Engineering & Soil-Structure Interaction at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Thessaly, Greece, and a member of the Division of Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering (2007), an MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design of Structures (2008) and a PhD in Civil Engineering (2015) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests lie in the fields of computational geotechnical engineering and soil-structure interaction, as well as infrastructure response and vulnerability to seismic and other natural hazards, with emphasis on underground structures, tunnels, and bridge foundations. He has extensively worked on the above topics in the frame of various research projects during his doctoral studies and as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He has published more than 55 articles in international scientific journals and conferences. Dr. Tsinidis has reviewed more than 110 articles for 26 International Scientific Journals. Additionally, he has worked as a Civil Engineer / Consultant for 2.5 years for consultancies in Vienna, Austria (FCP Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH, Vienna Consulting Engineers ZT GmbH), providing services in a variety of industrial projects worldwide, i.e., design of surface and deep foundations of bridges, design of excavations in densely constructed areas, design of temporary and permanent retaining structures, earthquake analyses of buildings, fatigue verifications of structural elements, designs of ballastless railway tracks etc. Currently, he acts as Principal investigator of research project: INFRARES - Towards resilient transportation infrastructure in a multi‐hazard environment, which is funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation.

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Computational Geotechnical Engineering
Soil Mechanics Ι
Soil Dynamics

Office hours
Tuesday, 12:00 - 14:00
Wednesday, 12:00 – 14:00

	Assistant Professor
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Dr. Lampros Vasiliades is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Hydrology at the Hydraulics & Environmental Engineering Sector, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. He was awarded a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from the University of the Aegean, Greece (1995), a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (1996) and a PhD (2010) in Hydrology and Hydroinformatics from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. Mr. Vasiliades is a registered professional environmental scientist in Greece and member of the Greek Committee for Water Resources Management, the Hellenic Meteorological Society, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), the European Geosciences Union (EGU), the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), the Global Network for Environmental Sciences and Technology (Global Nest), the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society (iEMSs) and other professional and scientific organizations. He is Editor in Journals Water, Earth and Frontiers in Environmental Science and a regular reviewer in several international scientific journals. His research interests include: a) analysis, modelling, and forecasting of extreme hydrological events (floods and droughts), b) spatiotemporal analysis, estimation, and modelling of hydrometeorological and water quality data, c) deterministic and stochastic hydrological modelling, d) climate change impacts on the hydrological processes and water resources, e) water resources management, f) applications of geoinformatics on hydrology, water resources and hydrosystems and g) design and environmental impact assessment studies of hydrotechnical projects. Mr. Vasiliades is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications in refereed journals, international conference proceedings and technical reports. His published work has received over 1450 citations, as indicated in Scopus database search with h-index=20 and over 2700 citations, as indicated in Google Scholar database search (h-index=24, i-10-index=30). He has participated in several national and European research projects on hydrology, water resources management and the use of remote sensing and GIS in hydrology and water resources and he is National Representative and/or Substitute Member of Greece in COST Actions (i.e. COST ES1404, COST ES0901, CA15206).

Undergraduate Courses:
Geographic Information Systems
Hydrology
Management of Extreme Hydrological Phenomena
Hydrologic Modelling and Forecasting
Spatial Analysis Techniques and Remote Sensing Applications in Civil Engineering

Office Hours:
Monday     13:00 – 15:00
Tuesday    12:00 – 14:00

Education
B.Sc. Environmental Science, Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, Greece (1995)
M.Sc. Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K. (1996)
PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece (2010)